Новости за 02.08.2016

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"It was the '90s."

That's all the explanation you really need when you watch this clip of a former British SAS soldier going up against a US Recon Marine in a sensationalized "boxing" match.

In 1998, an obscure company called Universal Warriors hosted the "Commando Knockout Challenge," where contestants, all of them elite servicemembers hailing from several different countries, went head-to-head in spectacular fashion. 

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Tim Kaine addressed Donald Trump's comments on a crying baby from a rally earlier in the day.

Brandon Marshall is partying like it’s 2009. Frustrated at Jets practice over a sputtering offensive performance, the veteran receiver punted a football over the bleachers, according to Brian Costello of the New York Post. Seven years ago, while Marshall was in Denver, a punted football at practice was one of the various straws that ultimately resulted…

Oclaro Inc. shares rose more than 10% late Tuesday after the company, which manufactures and sells optical components, reported better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter results. Oclaro said it earned $12 million, or 11 cents a share, versus a loss of $14 million, or 13 cents a share, a year ago. Adjusted for one-time items, Oclaro earned $15 million, or 11 cents a diluted share, versus a loss of $7 million, or 6 cents a share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015. Sales reached $125 million in the quarter... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX — Authorities say a Phoenix woman has been arrested in her daughter’s death after giving the toddler methamphetamine in an effort to counteract the methadone she had consumed from an open container. Police say 30-year-old Natalie Russell was arrested last week on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder and two counts of child

Electronic Arts reported a smaller-than-expected decline in quarterly revenue and profit despite lacking a major new videogame release in the period.

Low-for-longer interest rates are making the riskier option the better one, with much higher yields

A suicide car bomb attack in the eastern city of Benghazi targeting Libyan troops killed 23 people and wounded dozens of others today, a hospital official said.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in almost a month on Tuesday as investors worried about the health of the U.S. economy and sold shares in retailers and car companies. Machinery companies also fell and the…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in almost a month on Tuesday as investors worried about the health of the U.S. economy and sold shares in retailers and car companies. Machinery companies also fell and the…

President Obama got his opportunity to smack Trump today at a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Singapore, and he did not hold back.

At the tender age of 6, Dariadna Corujo is already an expert barrel racer and calf roper, wearing pink boots as she competes in rodeos on the hot, flat grasslands of central Sancti Spiritus province. A group of neighboring cattle ranchers founded a nongovernmental group called Future Ranchers more than a decade ago to revive Cuba’s rodeo culture, which dates back centuries to Spanish colonial times. The group teaches rodeo skills like roping and riding along with more practical education in ranching, veterinary medicine and farming.

What would the electoral map look like if Hillary Clinton pulls off a landslide? Steve Kornacki explains.

Pokemon Go players who rely on third-party tracking and mapping apps to help them find and catch Pokemon more quickly and efficiently — considered by some to be cheats — are crying foul after those apps were disabled by a recent update to the game.

Will Smith and Margot Robbie discuss their reaction to receiving unusual gifts from "Suicide Squad" co-star Jared Leto

It’s 2029, the dollar has collapsed, and America is on the brink of ruin. If only we had listened to the precocious libertarian children of the world and invested in gold, rather than trusting those elitist socialists who run the economy and the immigrants who run the government.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A dog is on its way to Asia after police rescued it from a swamp following its escape from New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A dog is on its way to Asia after police rescued it from a swamp following its escape from New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A dog is on its way to Asia after police rescued it from a swamp following its escape from New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport. Airport police used a rowboat and snare to reach the dog.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A dog is on its way to Asia after police rescued it from a swamp following its escape from New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport. Airport police used a rowboat and snare to reach the dog.

Coroner's investigators have recovered three bodies from a mangled pickup truck discovered at the bottom of a deep ravine in the Angeles National Forest and will now determine whether the remains belong to a trio of missing Fontana youths, officials said Tuesday. Authorities confirmed the truck...

RANDALLSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a black woman in a gunfire exchange with police that also injured a young boy (all times local):

Baltimore County police say they asked Facebook to suspend a woman's Facebook and Instagram accounts during a standoff because people commenting on videos of the law enforcement operation were encouraging her to not comply with orders from officers. Authorities say an armed black woman fatally shot during a standoff with police had previously refused to get out of her car during a traffic stop in March, saying officers would have to "murder" her. The cardboard "plates" said: "Free Traveler" and... Читать дальше...